Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearst Documents. The special committee investigating the documents with which Publisher William Randolph Hearst tried to show a bribery plot between Mexico and U. S. Senators (TIME, Dec. 19 et seq.), approached the conclusion that Publisher Hearst was a knave or a dolt or both. Handwriting experts last week pronounced the documents, for which Publisher Hearst paid $20,000, to be inept forgeries. The evidence pointed toward the Hearst agent, Miguel Avila, as one of the forgers, though this was not proved. Publisher Hearst protested his own innocence, agreed he had been bamboozled but again insisted a bribery plot...
...August a special form-letter is sent out from the office of the Dean of Harvard College to the parents and teachers of each Freshman, asking them to write confidentially about the boys in a way that will be helpful to the Dean's Office. When the replies to these letters come back, the Dean of Harvard College, the Freshman Dean and the Chairman of the Board of Freshman Advisers read them. The chairman marks the passages which will be of help to the Advisers, and these are copied and sent to each Adviser, together with the other information concerning...
...August a special form-letter is sent to each Freshman regarding registration and consultation with Advisers. With this letter is sent the pamphlet entitled, "Studies of the Freshman Year"; a list of the members of the Board of Freshman Advisers with the subjects which they teach, and a blank asking for the name; age; home address; address to which notice of appointment of Adviser should be sent; name of parent or guardian; where the boy has been prepared for College; the name of any Adviser to whom for any special reason, personal or otherwise, he would like to be assigned...
...Thursday of Freshman Week there is a special meeting of the members of the Board of Freshman Advisers in the Faculty Room at 4 o'clock. At that meeting each Adviser receives an envelope containing the excerpts from the letters from parents and teachers; the preparatory school or admission grades of his advisees; the "Rules Relating to College Studies" and "Studies of the Freshman Year;" the elective pamphlet; a memorandum for the guidance of Advisers; the Freshman Week program, with the Advisers' names and hours and places of consultation on the back; and a supply of blank record cars...
...Sunday afternoon before the opening of the term there is a special and very busy meeting of the members of the office staff of the Board of Freshman Advisers. A list of the Freshmen admitted in September is received from the Committee on Admission and these men are then assigned to Advisers. The assignments are put on cards which are placed in the registration envelopes of the Freshmen, so that few of the men admitted in September come to the office of the chairman on Monday to find out the names of their Advisers. The only information immediately available concerning...